Collector · Landowner

Adrien Santi Mattei

fl. 1862–1915

Collector and landowner, active 1862–1915. Lived at Larnaca.

Life and work

February 1862
Edmond Duthoit saw, in a house in Larnaca belonging to 'M. Mattei Sancti', a bronze statue thigh of exquisite finish, two or three times life-size, from a statue found about 27 years earlier by Turks digging for stone and broken up into pieces (Duthoit's letter of 8 February 1862). Merrillees argues this is probably the Tamassos Apollo leg now in the Louvre (the Chatsworth head belongs to the same statue).
LarnacaMerrillees 2016 Tatton-Brown 2001
1878
A glass cylindrical vessel with Greek inscription belonging to 'M. Mattei, de Larnaca' (recorded by Pottier in Cyprus, August-November 1878) was bought by Alexander Palma di Cesnola; which Mattei is meant is not clear.
LarnacaMerrillees 2016
1884
The Louvre bronze leg was 'given by one of the Mattei clan' (Merrillees; De Ridder's catalogue: 'Chypre, don M. Mattei'). Cassimatis, citing the Louvre archives, says it was the last gift of Péretié, handed over by his son, and comes from Saida.
ParisMerrillees 2016 Tatton-Brown 2001

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Bronze leg of a colossal statue (Tamassos Apollo; Chatsworth head belongs to the same statue)
From TamassosMusée du Louvre Br 69 (MNC 1190)1884Merrillees 2016 Tatton-Brown 2001